Up 41,000 people mth/mth (Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - Ottawa, 25 Jul - In May, the number of Canadian employees receiving pay and benefits from their employer, considered as payroll employment, increased by 41,000, or 0.2%, month on month, according to Statistics Canada.

It was the fifth consecutive monthly increase, with a cumulative gain of 148,900, 0.8%, from January to May, it added.

Meanwhile, job vacancies were little changed in May, at 559,700, following three consecutive monthly declines from January to April, totalling 99,700.

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